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The half-closed eyes were blood-shot; the lips were baked black, and hideously swollen; their mouths were open; and where the suffused blood from the fierce knottings of the cords that bound them showed blue and purple, the veins were swollen to the bursting point. "The block and the axe!" commanded "The False Prophet." The grim things were brought. "Loose the carrion!" came the next command.
I asked Pat the reason of this curious arrangement, and was told that if we were lucky enough to secure a mugger, the loose strands would entangle themselves amongst his formidable teeth, whereas were the rope in one strand only he might bite it through; the knottings at intervals were to give greater strength to the line. We now got our bait ready. On this occasion it was a live tame duck.
Do you know that you have many of my looks? I perceive all this, and believe that you were born under my star. Yes, you were born under my star! Tremble! for where that is the case with mortals, the threads of their destinies are difficult to disentangle; knottings and catchings occur sudden breaks leave damage in the web. But these 'impressions, as you say, with English caution.
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